I'm at work until late but I want to talk about this
https://twitter.com/woodruffbets/status/1484577237659750401
Some thoughts in no particular order to follow
With this detail noticed by @conspirator0, and the details previously reported about the Dec 18 meeting in the Oval, I think it is extremely likely Sidney Powell authored the draft.
https://twitter.com/conspirator0/status/1484597055712600064?t=wQsP2A1ODElm88yGn8QWCg&s=19
Based on Powell's erratic behavior and statements over the past 18 months, she strikes me as someone who genuinely thought Trump 1) could, and 2) should, follow the plan detailed in the draft.
I'm tempted to say she's a True Believer.
I'm tempted to say she's a True Believer.
I think that differentiates her from Flynn, also at the Dec 18 meeting.
My read on Flynn is not that he thought the course of action proposed was legally within their power. I just think he cynically believed there was enough support from Trump's base to get away with it.
My read on Flynn is not that he thought the course of action proposed was legally within their power. I just think he cynically believed there was enough support from Trump's base to get away with it.
I tend to think Flynn was the guy I was worried about for years
https://twitter.com/dappergander/status/1137091777872191490?t=sNF3WTA2YrSb0ONTox3yQQ&s=19
The draft of the "National Healing" speech isn't so much interesting in what it says. It says exactly what you're supposed to say when your supporters attack the Capitol.
It's interesting in that Trump wouldn't (or at least didn't) deliver it. That speaks volumes.
It's interesting in that Trump wouldn't (or at least didn't) deliver it. That speaks volumes.
In some ways it's a repeat of the Unite the Right presser following the death of Heather Heyer.
Some people are probably wondering why Trump wouldn't just have signed the draft EO.
I think the reason is the same that a speech was written following Jan 6 that Trump didn't give.
Clearly there were people around Trump who were behaving as if this was a normal administration.
I think the reason is the same that a speech was written following Jan 6 that Trump didn't give.
Clearly there were people around Trump who were behaving as if this was a normal administration.
Feel however you want about those people but one of them kept that draft EO off of the President's desk.
I assume that's why the draft was dated the 16th and the weird meeting in the Oval was the 18th.
They expected the draft would be immediately signed, but it wasn't, prompting the "Let's talk the President into it" meeting.
They expected the draft would be immediately signed, but it wasn't, prompting the "Let's talk the President into it" meeting.
Powell believed what she read on the internet
Byrne believed what Powell was saying about it
Flynn believed there were enough Republicans loyal to Trump to get away with it
Byrne believed what Powell was saying about it
Flynn believed there were enough Republicans loyal to Trump to get away with it
The only thing that doesn't sit completely right with me in making assumptions about Flynn is that I'm not sold on what he thought he had to gain.
Powell believed it, therefore she thought she was doing right.
But if Flynn didn't, what was his motivation?
Powell believed it, therefore she thought she was doing right.
But if Flynn didn't, what was his motivation?
I mean, money, sure, but as we have seen, he can fundraise just as easily now. He's making bank on the circuit.
Maybe it was just loyalty. Trump pardoned him.
I don't buy the argument that Flynn's goal was to "destroy democracy"or whatever, because that's not a goal, that's a means. The goal would be whatever he'd gain from destroying democracy and no one seems to have a good idea what that would've been.
See, now this is something I could believe, that he expected a Cabinet level post in a second Trump Administration.
https://twitter.com/Lissy_Takes/status/1484693570841939972?t=L3OhDMkmYsNb8y8fQX17wA&s=19
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